I have several epub books purchased from O'Reilly. These are lumped together in the iBooks library without any category specification. Is there anyway I can indicate their different categories?

Thanks,

JAS

Originally Posted by jaschulz

I have several epub books purchased from O'Reilly. These are lumped together in the iBooks library without any category specification. Is there anyway I can indicate their different categories?

Thanks,

JAS

You can create folders and put the different categories of books into different folders.


'Edit' - select a book you want to move to a new folder by touching it - then 'New' and create a new folder.

If you want to move further books to that folder then 'Edit', select the book and then touch the name of the folder you want to move it to.

Tim

Thanks, but I don't see any NEW button when I touch a title in the list. Am I missing something?

JAS

I found the NEW button. I creates a new "Collection" rather than a new "category", but it works for me. Thanks.

JAS

Glad you found it - it took me a long time before I realised what 'New' did - sounds as though it might be creating a new book, or something....

Tim

The categories are stored in the ebook's metadata, it is basically the genre. You can not edit this in iBooks, but you can edit it in iTunes if you have the book synced there.

Just right click on the book and choose Get Info. Go to the Info tab. The Genre is at the bottom. You'll have to sync again for the change to show in iBooks. You can also change your cover art and a few other things here, in case they are wrong or you just don't like the current info.

Unfortunately you can only sort inside a collection. iBooks needs an All Books default collection, in my opinion. One where all books are listed no matter what other collection they have been assigned.